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J. S. CLARKE. Machine for Washing and Soaking Bottles, &0.

Pat ented June 15, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES S. CLARKE, OF DERBY, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR WASHING AND SOAKING BOTTLES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 228,868, dated June 15, 1880. Application filed July 26, 1878. Patented in England July 2, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES S. CLARKE, of Derby, in the county of Derbyshire, England, have invented anew Improvement in Machines for Cleansing Bottles, patented in England, N 0. 2,540, dated July 2, 1877 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection'with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

' Figure 1, vertical transverse section; Fig. 2, longitudinal section.

This invention relates to an improvement in machines or apparatus for cleansing bottles; audit consists in the construction hereinafter described, an (I particularly recited in the claim.

A is a case or tank, made tight, so as to contain the water or other cleansing-fluid. B B are disks, more or less in number, and arranged to form annular spaces 0 between them, and secured together to form a cylinder supported in the tank upon a bearing, a, at one end, and a large bearing, 1), at the other end, and so as to be freely revolved in the tank. At the center and through the larger bearing is a discharge-spout, D, made stationary in the tank, and so that the cylinder revolves around it. This spout is open at the top, as seen in Fig. 1, and inclined from its inner end outward, as seen in Fig. 2.

Between the disks B tubular radial spindles dare arranged, more or less in number, and so that the bottles to be cleansed may be placed thereon mouth inward, as shown. These spindles are hollow and lead from longitudinal tubes 0, arranged around the center,

as seen in Fig. 1.

At one pointsay the highest-each of the tubes will successively register with a forced water-inlet, E, so that at that point a jet of water will be discharged through all the spindles d radiating from that particular tube 0 which at the time is in line with the inlet E. (See Fig'. 2.)

The bottles are placed upon the spindlessay at the position Fthe cylinder revolved, other bottles placed upon thenext series of spindles, and so on, and as each series of bottles comes into line with the discharge E a jet of water is injected therein, serving to cleanse the inside of the bottles; then, passing on, the second series of bottles are presented for a like operation, and so on, until, coming again to the point F, they are removed and others introduced. The water drips from the bottles into the spout D and passes oil as waste.

The lower part of the tank is filled with water or other cleansing-fluid, through which the bottles will pass in their revolution.

Ribs H are arranged for the bottles to ride upon and to retain them in their position.

1 claim The combination of several tubes arranged longitudinally, and so as to revolve around a common center, with hollow spindles leading from said tubes radially from said common center, and an inlet arranged to register successively with each of said longitudinal tubes as they pass in revolution, described.

substantially as JAMES S. CLARKE.

Witnesses:

HARVEY STANSBY, ARTHUR J. 00X. 

